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Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World : From the Middle Ages to the Present

Boston : BRILL, 2021 [©2021]

1 online resource (296 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Gendering the Portuguese-speaking world (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-45939-7

978-90-04-45672-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Basisklassifikation: 71.33 (Frau) <Soziologie> ; 15.66 (Spanien; Portugal) <Geschichte>

*Portugal ; Kolonie ; Portugiesen ; Geschichte ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Soziale Situation ; Lebensbedingungen ; Kultur ; Konferenzschrift      Zum Register

This book addresses the long-term cultural and social environment of sex definition in different continents. The impact on gender of Portuguese expansion is confronted to local agency and indigenous responses. Historical, literary and anthropological approaches highlight colonial and postcolonial gender fluidity.

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Intro -- Contents -- General Series Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: Portugal and Its Empire -- 1. Gendering Medieval Portugal -- 2. Negotiating Patriarchy in Early Modern Portugal -- 1 Women without Men -- 2 Women withstanding Men -- 3 Women Withdrawing from Men -- 4 Conclusion -- 3. Gendering Practices and Possibilities in Portugal and Its Empire during the Early Modern Period -- 1 Exclusions and Legal Rights -- 2 Women's Options -- 3 Colonial Contexts: Race, Slavery, and Informal Families -- 4 Women and the Economy: Literacy, Education and Occupational Training -- 5 Successful Women? -- 6 Women in Dire Straits: Charity -- 7 Conclusions -- 4. Women and Gender in the Portuguese Overseas Empire. Society, Economy and Politics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Women, Gender and Postcolonial Studies -- 3 Local Women Seen through the Eyes of the Sources -- 4 Society: Women's Status and Family Roles -- 5 Women as Economic Agents -- 6 Politics and War: The Role of Women -- 7 Final Remarks -- 5. Language and Gender -- 6. Convents in Lisbon: Practices against Seclusion -- 1 Entrance and Profession -- 2 Socializing -- 3 Wealth -- 4 Writings -- 5 Conclusion -- 7. Gendering Libraries and Reading (a Glimpse at Three Generations of Portuguese Readers) -- 1 The Education of a Woman Reader -- 2 A Reader of Foreign, Forbidden and "Unsuitable" Books -- 3 Languages of the Books in Dona Leonor's Library -- 4 A Reader of Novels -- 5 Women and Novels in the Fronteira Family -- Part 2: Modern and Postcolonial World -- 8. Wily Homosexuals: Notes on the Circulation of Queerness and Homophobia in the Luso-Brazilian -- 1 Wily Homosexuals and Traveling Theory -- 2 The Spectacle of Homosexuality in O crime do Padre Amaro -- 3 Albino's Tangled Belongings.